One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
BERNIE SIEGELI always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn’t think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need.
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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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